Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 467 Air Bed

"Jack, we can't wait any longer, we have to add more servers and bandwidth overnight.

Otherwise, there will definitely be a large-scale outage tomorrow. "The new COO Dick Costolo suggested to Jack Dorsey eagerly.

Originally, the Big Four of Twitter thought they were fully prepared, but today they discovered that they still underestimated the influence of celebrities and artists.

Today alone, more than a million traffics poured into Twitter.

The number of newly registered users has also exceeded 30, which is close to the limit of the previous reserve server and bandwidth capacity.

This is only the first day, and the celebrity artist effect has not yet been fully exerted.

According to the current trend, the battle has just begun, and more users will be attracted in the next week or two.

In the past, I was worried about insufficient user growth, but now I am worried that the traffic is coming too fast and I cannot handle it. It really feels like a painful and happy feeling.

But this feeling of pain and joy is something that the Big Three of Twitter wish they could have every day. As long as they can retain even 10% of the influx of traffic, it will be enough for Twitter to achieve incredible growth.

Jack Dorsey remembered Ma Liang's previous instructions to absorb this wave of traffic at all costs.

Even if all the $3000 million in financing is spent, it is worth it as long as it can retain users.

He thought for a moment and then replied to Dick Costolo: "Add, and you have to add five times.

We will also have marketing arrangements in the future, and the traffic will only increase in the future. "

"Okay, I understand, let's make arrangements now." Dick Costolo immediately turned around and went to work.

Jack Dorsey nodded with satisfaction. Although Dick Costolo was Ivan's ally, he had to admit that the newly appointed COO was indeed very powerful.

At least the downtime problem was miraculously solved after they just gave me a small suggestion to stop using the Ruby server and use software written in the Scala language.

Nowadays, the number of downtimes has been significantly reduced, and even if it encounters a large traffic impact, it has not crashed a few times.

Not to mention that they are also responsible for the business development work of advertising insertion function, which is the top priority of Twitter's business model.

With Dick Costolo joining, Jack Dorsey saves a lot of trouble.

He turned around and walked back to the office, where he continued to discuss the progress of Twitter's next phase of project development.

It has to be said that with Ma Liang's intervention, this CEO is obviously much more dedicated than in his previous life.

Perhaps it’s because this recent series of saucy operations has also aroused Jack Dorsey’s instinctive fighting spirit.

Tempted by the bright prospect of Twitter becoming the king of social media, he really gave it his all.

Because there is a critical project that determines victory or defeat, and he is eager to lead his team to tackle it, which is to develop a personal homepage service for Twitter similar to Facebook and MySpace.

This means that in the near future, Twitter will not only be a pan-social platform, but will also enter the social field of acquaintances.

This idea was proposed by Ma Liang, not a random operation.

After all, Facebook in the previous life could launch a website similar to Twitter, so why couldn't Twitter take over the other party's home base?

In Ma Liang's previous life, Gouchang had launched the QQ Weibo service and once attempted to kill Sina Weibo.

But at that time, Sina Weibo had already become a trend, and after Goose Factory fought in various ways to no avail, they could only watch blankly.

That’s why Ma Liang wanted to let Twitter secretly shoot Facebook in the back before it could completely establish its victory.

As long as the products and services are good, who says that Twitter can't use pan-social and acquaintance social networking together? There may be unexpected surprises.

Under this strategic premise, Jack Dorsey also had to be tough.

In the next few days, the number of Twitter users grew more and more rapidly, and even areas outside the United States achieved major breakthroughs.

The appeal of celebrity artists has finally been fully demonstrated, and this huge fan effect has also attracted more celebrities to join the game.

Now it's not just the local celebrities in the United States who are having a great time. Celebrities all over the world are gradually discovering the value of Twitter.

With the calls of these big names and celebrities, Twitter's global user growth has completely embarked on a fast track.

As long as the rapid growth trend continues, it will only be a matter of time before it catches up with Facebook.

Now that the situation was excellent, Ma Liang felt relieved.

After patiently admonishing the Big Four of Twitter, he finally decided to return to China.But before he went back, he had to visit Su Xiaomi, so he simply asked his assistant Fang Min to book a flight directly back to China from San Jose Airport the day after tomorrow.

This time he didn't have the luxury of choosing a chartered flight. Two first-class tickets on a regular flight were all he needed.

After setting a date to return to China, he no longer had to worry about the subsequent operations of Twitter, and he was free again for a while.

That day, Ma Liang walked out of Twitter's new office building. It was still a while before dinner time. He happened to pass by a coffee shop, so he took his assistant Fang Min in and sat for a while.

I thought about having afternoon tea first and then having dinner when I feel hungry.

The two ordered two lattes and found a random seat to sit down.

The business of this coffee shop is very good, and the attendance rate in the afternoon is very high, almost all seats are occupied.

Ma Liang sipped coffee while listening to Fang Min's report on the domestic business situation.

This is a daily routine, and Fang Min just picks the most important things to talk about. After all, senior executives are responsible for handling small things now, so Ma Liang no longer needs to do everything personally.

After a while, the work report was almost finished, and the coffee was only half drunk.

Ma Liang was just thinking about buying some gifts to give to his confidante after returning home, when he heard a worried voice coming from behind him.

"What should I do? I don't have much cash on hand, and it's almost time to pay the rent."

"Uh, man, you know, I didn't get a job last week either, so it's just going to be worse than yours."

"So what should we do? I haven't found a new job yet!"

"Why don't we sublet the apartment and get a cheaper one? We really can't afford it."

"It's not that easy to transfer out, and it won't solve the urgent need for a while.

The key is, are you sure you can find a new job soon?Otherwise, after we transfer out, we won’t be able to find a place to sleep without money.”

"Then what's going on? Are we looking for someone to come over and share the apartment?"

"Hey! That's a good idea, why not?"

"How do we share a room? Where do we get the extra beds?"

"Isn't the living room empty? Didn't Andy and his friends buy two inflatable beds when they came over to play before? Let's rent out those two inflatable beds."

"Inflatable bed? Are you kidding? Who would be willing to rent this for a long time?"

“It won’t work in the long term, but it will work in the short term!

The IDSA&ICSID conference will be held soon. There will definitely be a lot of industrial designers coming to San Francisco to participate. We can rent beds to them. "

"Are you sure it's possible?"

"Of course, you don't know that all the budget hotels in San Francisco are fully booked during the conference.

The designer who didn't book a hotel came to San Francisco and couldn't find a place to stay.

As for those luxury star hotels, they may not be willing to spend so much money to stay there.As long as our air beds are cheap enough, people will definitely come to rent them for a few days. "

"Why does this sound a little unreliable?"

"You don't care, do it first and then talk about it.

Not only can we provide an inflatable bed, but we can also provide guests with a homemade breakfast.

Coupled with the free desk and WiFi, our living room is no worse than a hotel.

That’s it. I decided to start building a rental website in the next two days. Why not call the website [Air Bed and Breakfast]?
When the time comes to do some promotion online, I don’t believe no one will come. "

The two young people were worried about not being able to pay the rent and racked their brains to come up with a solution. When Ma Liang heard it, he was stunned on the spot.

Air bed?
[Air Bed and Breakfast]?

Isn’t this Airbnb?

(End of this chapter)